Autore	Ramsey Robert D.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2005
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (225 p.)
Disciplina	371.2011
Soggetto topico	School management and organization - United States School administrators - United States
ISBN	1-4833-6333-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface: Why This Book? Why Now?""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Introduction: Some Things Never Change""; ""Chapter 1 - What You Do is Special""; ""Chapter 2 - Primero Los Ninos: Children First""; ""Chapter 3 - There are No Throwaway Kids""; ""Chapter 4 - Strong Schools Make a Strong Nation""; ""Chapter 5 - Schools are Sacred Places of Hope""; ""Chapter 6 - Teaching is the Greatest Profession""; ""Chapter 7 - Passion is the Engine That Drives School Leadership""; ""Chapter 8 - What Matters Most Costs the Least"" ""Chapter 9 - Schools are Only as Strong as the Community Allows""""Chapter 10 - When itâ€?s Your Own Kid, it's Different""; ""Chapter 11 - That Pesky Golden Rule Still Works""; ""Chapter 12 - Someone Has to be the Grown-up""; ""Chapter 13 - Good Leaders Learn to â€œK.I.S.S.â€? and Enjoy the Happiness of Subtraction""; ""Chapter 14 - You canâ€?t have too Much Integrity""; ""Chapter 15 - Common Sense is Better than a College Degree: The Grandma Test""; ""Chapter 16 - Sometimes Kids Need Candy More Than Milk""; ""Chapter 17 - A Chicken Doesnâ€?t Stop Scratching Just Because Worms are Scarce"" ""Chapter 18 - The Reverse Side has a Reverse Side""""Chapter 19 - The Best Leader is a â€œServant Leaderâ€?""; ""Chapter 20 - Your Mother Didnâ€?t Raise You to be a Bureaucrat""; ""Chapter 21 - Politicians and Armchair Quarterbacks Donâ€?t Get itâ€?So You Have to""; ""Chapter 22 - If Youâ€?re Not Having Fun, Youâ€?re Doing it Wrong""; ""Chapter 23 - Things are Never as Bad as You Think They are; and Youâ€?re Braver, Stronger, and Smarter than You Imagine""; ""Chapter 24 - You Work to Live, Not Live to Work""; ""Chapter 25 - Itâ€?s Worth it!""; ""A Final Word: The Ouija Board Effect"" ""Resource A: What Others Say about What Matters Most (in School and in Life)""""Resource B: Other Books about What Matters Most""; ""Resource C: Other Lasting Truths That Couldnâ€?t be Squeezed Into This Little Book""; ""Index""
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Autore	Glasgow Neal A.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (184 p.)
Disciplina	428.4071
Soggetto topico	Reading English language - Composition and exercises - Study and teaching Effective teaching
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4522-9670-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About The Authors""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1 - The Very Complex and Often Controversial History, Philosophy, and Theory of Reading and Literacy""; ""Chapter 2 - Phonics, Phonemics, and Decoding""; ""Strategy 1 - ""Sound it Out"": Coach Word Recognition in Beginning Reading""; ""Strategy 2 - Teach Phonemic Awareness and Phonics in the Classroom and at Home""; ""Strategy 3 - Use Decoding to Improve Word Identification Problems and Improve Fluency""; ""Strategy 4 - Use Drama Rhymes to Teach Reading"" ""Strategy 5 - Consider Visual-Syntactic Text Formatting for Digital Text as a Technique for Increased Academic Achievement and Long-Term Reading Proficiency""""Chapter 3 - Vocabulary, Spelling, and Word Study""; ""Strategy 6 - Revisit and Reconsider the Role That Vocabulary Instruction Plays in Comprehension and Reading Motivation""; ""Strategy 7 - Use Teacher ""Read-Alouds"" as an Effective Practice for Enhancing Two of the Critical Components of Reading Instruction""; ""Strategy 8 - Use Semantic Impressions to Teach Vocabulary""; ""Strategy 9 - Use Word Expert Cards to Teach Vocabulary"" ""Strategy 10 - Whether you Develop your Own Word-Study/Spelling Approach or Teach with a Published Program of Some Type, you Need to Match the Specific System with the Developmental Stages of the Learners""""Chapter 4 - Fluency""; ""Strategy 11 - With the Right Strategies, Reading Fluency can be Improved in Middle and High School Classrooms""; ""Strategy 12 - Let Learners Read as Much as Possible""; ""Strategy 13 - We are All Reading Teachers and We should Act as Reading Role Models"" ""Strategy 14 - Keep in Mind the Three Key Elements of Reading Fluency: Accuracy in Word Decoding, Automaticity in Recognizing Words, and the Use of Meaningful Oral Expression and Learn How to Address Them Within Instruction""""Chapter 5 - Comprehension""; ""Strategy 15 - Try a ""Thinking Out Loud Strategy"" to Help Reveal Children's Make Sense of Text""; ""Strategy 16 - Use Information Trade Book Retellings to Improve Student Comprehension of Expository Text Structures"" ""Strategy 17 - Explore These Three Ways to Get Students to Interact with the Text in Reading Classes - Summarize, Share Insights, and Question""""Strategy 18 - Use Drama Techniques Such as Drawing, Interviewing, and Story Theater in the Class to Help Students Interact with the Text""; ""Strategy 19 - Allow Students to Choose What They Want to Read""; ""Strategy 20 - Use Paraphrasing to Promote Reading Comprehension""; ""Strategy 21 - Develop Critical Thinking and Reasoning Ability Through the Use of Fiction and Nonfiction Books in the Content Areas"" ""Strategy 22 - Use Talk as a Strategy in the Reading Class""
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910480062303321

Autore	Wall Edward S.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (169 p.)
Disciplina	372.7044
Soggetto topico	Mathematics - Study and teaching (Primary) - Standards - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4833-6151-9 1-4833-6368-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Prologue""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Authors""; ""Chapter 1 - Numbers and Operations""; ""Grades Prekâ€?2""; ""1. Encourage Young Childrenâ€?s Exploration and Understanding of Relationships among Numbers""; ""2. Encourage Young Childrenâ€?s Understanding of Addition and Subtraction and How They Relate To Each Other""; ""3. Encourage Young Childrenâ€?s Fluent Computation""; ""Grades 3â€?5""; ""4. Encourage an Understanding of the Structure of Numbers and Relationships among Numbers"" ""5. Encourage an Understanding of the Meanings of Multiplication and Division and How They Relate To Each Other""""6. Encourage Students to Compute Fluently and Make Reasonable Estimates""; ""Chapter 2 - Algebra""; ""Grades Prekâ€?2""; ""7. Encourage Young Childrenâ€?s Systematic Sorting and Classification as They Work with a Variety of Patterns, Geometric Shapes, and Data""; ""8. Encourage Young Childrenâ€?s Systematic Exploration of the General Principles and Properties of Operations Such as Addition and Subtraction""; ""Grades 3â€?5"" ""9. Encourage the Expression and Generalization of Mathematics Relationships""""10. Encourage Further Understanding of Multiplicative Structures through Application and Analysis of the Distributivity of Multiplication Over Addition""; ""Chapter 3 - Geometry""; ""Grades Prekâ€?2""; ""11. Encourage Young Childrenâ€?s Exploration of Characteristics and Properties of Two- and Three-Dimensional Shapes""; ""12. Encourage Young Childrenâ€?s Application of Similarity Transformations to Analyze Geometric Situations"" ""13. Encourage Young Childrenâ€?s Use of Visualization and Spatial Reasoning in Their Exploration of Geometric Shapes""""Grades 3â€?5""; ""14. Encourage Studentsâ€? Exploration and Mathematical Analysis of the Properties of Two-Dimensional Geometric Shapes""; ""15. Encourage Studentsâ€? Use of Geometric Transformations to Analyze Mathematical Situations""; ""16. Encourage Studentsâ€? Use of Visualization, Spatial Reasoning, and Geometric Modeling to Solve Problems""; ""Chapter 4 - Measurement""; ""Grades Prekâ€?2"" ""17. Encourage Young Childrenâ€?s Exploration and Understanding of Measurement Concepts and Relationships""""18. Encourage Young Children to Accurately Apply Appropriate Tools and Techniques to Linear Measurement""; ""Grades 3â€?5""; ""19. Encourage Studentsâ€? Exploration and Understanding of Measurement Concepts and Relationships""; ""20. Encourage Studentsâ€? Appropriate Application of Conventional Measuring Tools in Varied Situations""; ""Chapter 5 - Data Analysis and Probability""; ""Grades Prekâ€?2"" ""21. Encourage Young Childrenâ€?s Collection, Display, and Organization of Objects and Data""
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910480108603321

Autore	Glasgow Neal A
Edizione	[2nd ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Corwin
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xviii, 253 pages)
Disciplina	371.102
Collana	Gale eBooks
Soggetto topico	Effective teaching Motivation in education
ISBN	1-4522-7242-5 1-4833-5041-X 1-4522-0975-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Interacting and collaborating with students -- Managing the classroom environment, time, and discipline -- Organizing curricular goals, lesson plans, and instructional delivery -- Using student assessment and feedback to maximize instructional effectiveness -- Celebrating diversity in the classroom -- Integrating technology in the classroom -- Enhancing reading and literacy skills -- Developing a professional identity -- Fostering a positive relationship with families and community.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910791327803321